Editorial cartoonist Henry Payne, who has faced criticism for a cartoon featuring U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib that implied a connection to Hezbollah, has replied by now linking her to former Dearborn mayor Orville Hubbard.
Detroit News columnist Henry Payne responds to sharp criticism about his cartoon in the National Review showing U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib with an exploding pager.
In an email to Deadline Detroit late Saturday night, Payne writes:
“Metro Detroit has an unfortunate history of intolerant leadership from Orville Hubbard to Rashida Tlaib. And cartoonists’ pens have long lampooned their demagoguery.”
Orville Hubbard was the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan from 1942 to 1978a and became well-known nationally as an ardent segregationist with derogatory views towards Blacks, Arabs, Jews, and others.
Hubbard’s racial views were not limited to African-Americans. He was known to complain that “the Jews own this country,” that the Irish “are even more corrupt than the Dagos,” and as Middle Easterners began moving into Dearborn that “the Syrians are even worse than the n…..s.”
This is a pretty lame justification from Payne. But then he is not particularly known for being all that sharp.
Can you please correct the spelling of Tlaib’s name?
Done. Appropriate action applied to the headline writer.
Payne’s cartoon is the work of a scoundrel. He claims to be slamming racists while drawing a racist cartoon for all to see.